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Topic: my wrt54gl doesn't boot now ... power blinking

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i have installed openwrt successfuly, but i needed more space si i do the following
ipkg remove uclibc


after that no linux command was recognised ... so i unplug the power and plug in again
now the power led blinking and nothing work

please help me
thanx

(Last edited by fastgrav on 18 Apr 2006, 08:13)

thank you but i was reading this before post my problem
first of all it said "If the DMZ LED has not yet lit up, you are still in the bootloader! " - so i'm in the bootloader
I also tried to run recvudp utility but no package received

PS: I used openwrt-wrt54g-jffs2.bin

You're reading explicitly looking for an immediate solution, not actually reading the wealth of information that's there.

Since the DMZ led didn't light (note that you didn't mention this in your original post) we can conclude that you're using one of the jffs2 firmwares (note that you didn't mention this either) so you can't get into failsafe (the reason I gave you the link).

If you still have boot_wait on (you didn't mention this) then you can just tftp the firmware back on (follow the installation instructions linked from the troubleshooting page).
If not, then you'll have to build a serial or jtag (again, see the troubleshooting page)

thank you for your quick response
yes my fault to not mention all the problems in the first post ... sorry
i'll try the other ways

how do i know if i have boot_wait on ?
i ping 192.168.1.1 and no response !

i have to build a serial or jtag ... for WRT54GL ... my last hope
anywone have buit or have a tested schmatics for 54GL ?

I vaguely remember something about jumpering a pin on the flash chip to make it boot to tftp only mode... I think it was in the wiki. What happened to it?

(Last edited by mbm on 18 Apr 2006, 18:19)

yeees it works .. i'm so happy
thank U verry much both for your support !!!!!

eatnumber1 wrote:

I vaguely remember something about jumpering a pin on the flash chip to make it boot to tftp only mode... I think it was in the wiki. What happened to it?

It was intentionally removed after several people ruined their devices attempting it -- in most cases before even trying simple things like failsafe.

Please do not suggest this method to anyone here or the post will be deleted.

k, srry about that

I will tell what i did:
turn off wrt54g (mine was wrt54gl v1.1)
disassmble it
1. remove rubber legs
2. unscrew the screws in blue legs
3. there are two buttons on printed circut board reset ans ses (one with cisco logo on chasis) power up wrt54
press both buttons (hold them for 10-20 sec)
power off wrt54g both !!! buttons still pressed
power on wrt54g both !!! buttons still pressed
hol both !!! buttons still pressed for 10-20 sec
stop pressing buttons

wrt54g was pinging with address 192.168.1.1
run under console
tftp 192.168.1.1
binary
trace on
rexmt 1
put [firmware image]

tftp will display something like this:
sent DATA <block=4052, 512 bytes>
received ACK <block=4052>
sent DATA <block=4053, 512 bytes>
received ACK <block=4053>
sent DATA <block=4054, 512 bytes>
received ACK <block=4054>
sent DATA <block=4055, 512 bytes>
received ACK <block=4055>
sent DATA <block=4056, 512 bytes>

try nmap wrt54g
bash-3.1# nmap 192.168.1.1

Starting Nmap 4.20 ( http://insecure.org ) at 2009-03-17 16:25 CET
Interesting ports on 192.168.1.1:
Not shown: 1694 closed ports
PORT   STATE SERVICE
23/tcp open  telnet
53/tcp open  domain
80/tcp open  http
MAC Address: 00:1E:E5:45:8C:1D (Unknown)

Nmap finished: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 74.240 seconds
bash-3.1#

loosk like wrt54gl  is back to live

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